â€˜In my twilight years, I am looking forward to a tremendous Big Finish and the sooner the better,â€™

…Executive Producer Nicholas Briggs has added:

â€˜Tom and I have been communicating about possible projects for some time. There is really no firm news other than that, but we are both keen to make something happen. Lis Sladen, Louise Jameson and Nicholas Courtney have also expressed an interest in being involved…

â€˜No storylines have been written or approved yet and we don’t anticipate anything being available before 2011.’

Big Finish have also stressed that any future audios featuring Tom Baker would not have any affect on his ongoing work with BBC Audiobooks, adding weight to the rumour of a follow-up to the Hornet’s Nest series.

This is of course great news – Tom’s return to the convention scene seems to have given various Big Finish movers and shakers the chance to engage the Fourth Doctor directly, and while there is no solid agreement, what we have here is a much better response than previous flat denials.

A long-term Doctor Who fan, Christian grew up watching the show and has early memories of the Graham Williams era. His favourite stories are Inferno, The Seeds of Doom and Human Nature (although The Empty Child, Blink and Utopia all come close). When he’s not bossing around the news team, Christian is a freelance writer specialising in mobile technology and domestic computing, and enjoys classic rock, cooking and spending time in the countryside with his wife and young children. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.